Top 33 Ruben Fleischer Quotes

I read pretty much every ‘Venom’ comic that exists.

That ‘Zombieland’ thing was pretty great. I think I didn’t realize just how lucky I was after that first movie, to have something so special and to have a cast that’s so special.

Some time after ‘Gangster Squad,’ after I’d made a couple other movies, I was like, ‘In retrospect that ‘Zombieland’ experience was about as good as it can get, both between the cast and the world of the movie and the way it was received.’ I was like, ‘We should probably do another ‘Zombieland.’

I feel like a zombie movie is kind of like the gold to hear movie.

We’re definitely planning a huge world with this ‘Venom’ story, and we want to be able to satisfy our own desires and the desires of our fans to explore all of the beloved characters from the universe.

I think any opportunity you can to employ some visual technique, go for it.

It was fun playing with those jumps and the flashbacks in ‘Zombieland,’ but I don’t think you need it to make a good movie. It’s fun to just do a more straightforward one.

You know, duality has always been a strong theme throughout ‘Venom’-focused stories, whether it’s in the comics or in movies, and that’s something I think that Tom Hardy’s played with in a lot of his work.

I love TV.

I work really hard and have rolled up my sleeves for a long time to get the opportunities I’ve had.

I love ‘Bond’ movies, I love spy movies.

Traditionally in zombie movies, one of the main characters dies.

Zombies are kind of a perennial.

Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland’s the opposite, in that there’s a greater depth of character, and sense of self.

Yeah, I love ‘Boardwalk Empire.’

I have a music-video background, and I feel like the responsibility of a music-video director is to do something that hasn’t been done before in a really cool visual way. So much innovation has come in filmmaking through music videos.

I haven’t done a movie without a member of the original cast of ‘Zombieland’ – they’ve all been in every movie I’ve done.

I think Jack Nicholson in ‘Chinatown’ is a very funny character, but I would never call that a comedy.

My first time out of the gate, I made three movies in four years, and they were all very back to back to back.

I guess as a long time fan of ‘Venom,’ as soon as I heard they were making a standalone movie I got really excited at the prospect of being involved.

And my idols in music videos are people like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze and Johnathan Glazer and David Fincher and that’s always kind of been my reference point in music video and commercial directors.

I think we can all agree it would be pretty amazing to see Spider-Man and Venom face off in a film.

Some of the greatest movies of all time are within this genre, ‘The Godfather,’ and ‘Goodfellas,’ and ‘Untouchables’ and there’s just so many classic gangster movies that I was always such a fan of.

I’ve got to give a lot of credit to my cinematographer, Chung-hoon Chung, who is a master and among other things shot ‘Old Boy,’ which is a very famous single-take fight scene. He’s really a true master.

There is more than enough ‘Venom’ to go around. Venom is a really huge character, and Hardy is an amazing actor, so there is plenty to mine just from Tom’s performance, the character and the world he inhabits.

I basically went from finishing ‘Venom.’ I had a week off with my family. And then went straight into prep on ‘Zombieland 2.’

It’s tough to make a sequel that stands up to the original especially one that has, over the course of time, become a bit of a cult favorite.

I feel like there’s a true spirit of individuality in Portland that’s inherent to the place.

I think the filmmakers that I love are ones that cross genres and do different thinks, the way that David O. Russell can do something like ‘Flirting With Disaster’ but then go do ‘Three Kings’ which is like an incredibly visual film – that’s a huge reference point.

Bill Murray, we’ve got to get people worthy to be on the screen with him, as opposed to just a bunch of random… with no disrespect… but a bunch of random local actors.

If you’ve loved a girl your entire life and you’ve been afraid to tell her, don’t wait because you never know what might happen.

When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.

As far as ‘Venom,’ we took some license with this because I don’t think we know a lot about him from his days on planet Klyntar in the comic. But in our movie we thought maybe he could also be somebody who’s a little bit of a loser, a loner, and doesn’t love being subordinate.